US 11,729,251 B2
Remote and secure management of a storage system
Shiva Ankam, Sammamish, WA (US); Yu Tan, Sammamish, WA (US); Hongkai Wu, Kirkland, WA (US); Ziyuan Song, Bellevue, CA (US); Divya Marlapalle, San Jose, CA (US); Samridh Srinath, Sunnyvale, CA (US); and Miranda Steele, San Francisco, CA (US)
Assigned to PURE STORAGE, INC., Santa Clara, CA (US)
Filed by PURE STORAGE, INC., Mountain View, CA (US)
Filed on Jul. 28, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/387,869.
Application 17/387,869 is a continuation of application No. 16/280,276, filed on Feb. 20, 2019, granted, now 11,095,706.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/645,853, filed on Mar. 21, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2021/0360052 A1, Nov. 18, 2021
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. H04L 67/025 (2022.01); H04L 67/14 (2022.01); H04L 67/1097 (2022.01); H04L 9/08 (2006.01); H04L 9/40 (2022.01); H04L 67/51 (2022.01); G06F 11/14 (2006.01); G06F 21/62 (2013.01)
CPC H04L 67/025 (2013.01) [H04L 9/0863 (2013.01); H04L 63/083 (2013.01); H04L 63/0807 (2013.01); H04L 63/126 (2013.01); H04L 67/1097 (2013.01); H04L 67/14 (2013.01); H04L 67/51 (2022.05); G06F 11/1453 (2013.01); G06F 21/6218 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method comprising:
establishing, within a cloud-based services provider and based on one or more user credentials, a cloud-based session to execute one or more commands on a remote storage system that includes physical storage devices; and
extending, based on using an access token based on the one or more user credentials to securely issue one or more data storage operations based on the one or more commands to the remote storage system, the cloud-based session to the remote storage system, wherein the cloud-based session includes a workflow service, wherein the workflow service, using a representational state transfer application program interface, communicates with a stateless agent installed on the remote storage system to implement the one or more data storage operations.